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Creationists: Explain your understanding of microevolution and macroevolution

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renniks

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You ought to read the whole essay, not just the mined quote from Creation.com
Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
Take something simple we have all seen, the ape to man image that is used to support human evolution. It's false and scientists know it's been proven false, but it's still used because it's convincing to the uninformed. How is that not promoting falsehoods? Instead they have a vast variety of skeleton fragments that are interpretated certain ways because of Darwins failed theories. Throw out the whole model and they can be interpreted quite differently.
 
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Um he started it.
I have evidence for my claim--I can cite evolutionary biologists who explain what they think evolution is. Where did you learn what you think evolution is?
 
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How do you know? How do you know it's been proven false and scientists know it? Who proved it false? Why would scientists lie about it? What would be the point?
 
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I have evidence for my claim--I can cite evolutionary biologists who explain what they think evolution is. Where did you learn what you think evolution is?
"Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

(Darwin)
Quite naive of him really.
 
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What is the point of that quote?
 
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How do you know? How do you know it's been proven false and scientists know it? Who proved it false? Why would scientists lie about it? What would be the point?
As what they are: some are apes and some are humans.
A sloping forehead and big jaw doesn't equal a half man creature. It just shows us some of our ancestors had different bone structures.
 
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You asked.
I asked a technical question. You responded with a poetic riff by a scientist who has been dead for 140 years--and another mined quote from Creation.com
As what they are: some are apes and some are humans.
A sloping forehead and big jaw doesn't equal a half man creature. It just shows us some of our ancestors had different bone structures.
No, it doesn't--not if that's all the evidence you take into account.
 
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Reminds me of this book I once read:



From the book:

Though their bodies lie cold and dormant, the grave cannot contain the influence these seven men have had on today's world. They continue to rule because they have altered the thinking of society. They generated philosophies that have been ardently grasped by masses of people but are erroneous and antiscriptural. Today these ideas pervade our schools, businesses, homes, and even the church.

As we continue to unknowingly subscribe to their philosophies, we keep the grave open for Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Julius Wellhausen, John Dewey, Sigmund Freud, John Maynard Keynes, and Soren Kierkegaard. Dave Breese warns us of the dangers of believing unreservedly the ideas of these seven men. He also reminds us of the only man whose life and words we can trust completely--Jesus Christ.
 
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Is he serious?

He thinks there's none of those seven philosophies espoused in the scriptures?
Lol!
What nonsense!

Those seven men merely distinguished different ways of thinking when they were speaking philosophically. Believing in those philosophies, is optional.
 
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What an absolute shocker.
For a start John Maynard Keynes (Bertrand Russell was intimidated by his towering intellect) is not cold and dormant as he was cremated and why isn't Mel Blanc on the list?
Bugs Bunny reruns continue to corrupt the youth of today for their graphic portrayal of violence and non realism for a coyote repeatedly falling off a cliff and surviving.
 
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Bugs Bunny reruns continue to corrupt the youth of today for their graphic portrayal of violence and non realism for a coyote repeatedly falling off a cliff and surviving.
Then you'll want this:



Exposes the sinister truth behind He-Man, the Smurfs, the Care Bears, Voltron, and others.
 
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Then you'll want this:



Exposes the sinister truth behind He-Man, the Smurfs, the Care Bears, Voltron, and others.
Wow. Thats some top of the sewer floor, conspiracy fantasy
 
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Then you'll want this:



Exposes the sinister truth behind He-Man, the Smurfs, the Care Bears, Voltron, and others.
On a serious note why isn't Adolf Hitler on the list?
Hitler's legacy is kept alive through right wing extremism use of social media.
Since I have mentioned Keynes previously why is he on the list?
This is what the book mentions about John Maynard Keynes.
The author is clueless.
I'm sure you have even heard of the term economic stimulus which is an an example of Keynesian economics.
It was economic stimulus used by governments that prevented the global financial crisis developing into a global depression in 2008 and is currently being used during the COVID pandemic.
Governments do not aim for a full 100% employment rate but around a 97% employment rate and economic stimulus is only applied to sluggish economies otherwise inflation is a problem.

Preventing global depressions and the resultant human misery of massive unemployment was Keyne's objective which would appear to be a desirable characteristic not that of a villain.
 
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Glad you like it!
You do understand that these conspiracy fantasists were making up their nonsense to sell books and lectures to the most gullible.
They didn't believe the crap they were publishing. It was all about milking the sheep.
The whole "satanic panic" was manufactured to make these people rich and famous.
 
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LOL
 
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Clearest explanation ever....at least on an internet forum.
Also the clearest example of creationist misconstruction of evolution with a sprinkling of correct items for show.
If you what for the best website to explain micro and macro evolution, here is one that can't be beat.
Understanding Evolution - Berkeley
 
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The image of the ape to man is simply an image of relatedness and never was meant to support human evolution. Common ancestry and genetics support species relatedness and evolution. When creationists come up with a better theory that better explains the evidence and makes better predictions let us know.
 
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